The Imperial German Navy, 1897 - 1918: Negotiating the nation

J. Bachmann
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This article seeks to analyze the linkages between the Imperial German Navy and Germany’s domestic sphere from the years 1897 to 1918. Prior scholarship has suggested that the expansion of the Imperial German Navy, beginning in 1897, was strongly caused by internal domestic factors. This article disagrees with this assertion, pointing out how international concerns were the main motivating factor. Nonetheless, the paper does accept the general premise that the navy played a strong role in Germany’s domestic sphere. To this end, this article analyzes how, prior to World War One, the navy was built into a national symbol aimed at overcoming the German empire’s regional particularities. This article then bridges a gap in existing scholarship by linking the pre-war symbolic importance of the navy to its experience during the war and the naval revolts that occurred in 1918. In particular, this article argues that the national idea codified in the navy prior to the war was then challenged by the navy’s generally poor experience during the First World War. This contributed to the naval revolts of 1918 which caused a reevaluation of the German nation and toppled the empire.
德意志帝国海军,1897 - 1918:国家谈判
本文试图分析从1897年到1918年德意志帝国海军与德国国内领域之间的联系。先前的学术研究表明,1897年开始的德意志帝国海军的扩张在很大程度上是由国内因素引起的。本文不同意这种说法,指出国际关注是主要的激励因素。尽管如此,该文件确实接受了一个普遍的前提,即海军在德国国内领域发挥了强大的作用。为此,本文分析了在第一次世界大战之前,海军如何成为一种国家象征,旨在克服德意志帝国的地域特殊性。这篇文章然后通过将战前海军的象征意义与战争期间的经历和1918年发生的海军叛乱联系起来,弥合了现有学术的差距。特别是,这篇文章认为,战前在海军中形成的国家观念受到了海军在第一次世界大战期间普遍不佳的经验的挑战。这促成了1918年的海军叛乱,导致了对德意志民族的重新评估,并推翻了帝国。
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